Siding-hook



(No Model.) v I J. D. OTIS 86 D. M. MAXWELL.

SIDING HOOK. No. 297,711. Patented Apr. 29, 1884.

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JOHN D. OTIS AND DWIGHT M. MAXWELL, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

SlDlNG-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,711, dated April 29, 1884.

Application filed October 17, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN 'D. OTIS and DWIGHT M. MAXWELL, of Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Siding-Hook; and'we' do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters ofreference refer to like parts, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side view of the device; Figs. 2 and 3, front views of the same made right and left handed, Fig. 4, a perspective view showing the tool in use. 7

The object of this invention is the construction of a tool by means of which the clapboards or siding may be held in position while being nailed to the side of a house or other building.

Our invention for this purpose consists, essentially, of hooks depending from pivots having means of attachment to the side of the buildings.

In the drawings, B is the hook, having straight shank A, and pivoted at G to the lug E, projecting-from the plate D. Said plate I) is furnished with prongs F F, notched on their sides. Said prongs F F we usually form from screws cast in with the plate D and filed partially smooth on two opposite sides.

From the end A of the shank A projects a finger, A, and from the plate D is a corresponding finger, D. About and between said fingers D and A extends a coiled spring,rG. The lug C, projecting from the shank A of the siding-hook, comes in contact with the plate D, and prevents the loss of the spring G by the too far separation of the fingers D and A. The lug E is extended to a still farther distance from the plate D into a head, E,

midway between the prongs F. Byhammering against said head E, the prongs F are driven into the boards or timbers of the side of the building to be clapboarded until the plate D is flat against the same. The roughness of the prongs F prevents the same from To remove the plate D from its position, the hook Band its shank A serve as a lever by which to pullit therefrom. When the prongs to be easily withdrawn from the'wood,

and also protects the spring G from being too greatly compressed. In using these sidinghooks, we take three in all ordinary cases one at each end and one at the center of the clapboard that is being nailed in place.

, In Fig. 4, W represents a portion of the side of a-building, and T T either the window-jambs or the corner-boards of the build ing, between which it is desired to nail the siding or .clapboards. The siding-hooks are secured in the way previously described, so Y that the outer side of the hook and its shank shall just touch the side of the jamb T, as shown in Fig. 4. Putting a clapboard against the building just below the hooks B, we slide it upwar d under the shanks A and allow it to rest down upon the hooks B, for the slanting end Bot' each hook raises the same as the board comes in contacttherewith, and so permits the 'saidboard to slide between the hooks and the building. Soon as the lower edge of the board rises above the hooks B the springs G throw the same back beneath it, and the board is secured in place. If the board is of the right length, all we have to do is to nail it in place; but if it is too long we use the edge A of each siding-hook as a straight-edge and mark the board thereby. This gives the exact distance between the window-'jafnbs T T, since said edges A of the siding-hooks are in the same plane at right angles with the side of the house as are the inner edges or sides of said jambs. Then, by pulling the clapboard along till its mark is beyond the jamb, it can be sa'wed oft, first at one end and then at the other, returned to its place, and nailed on.

7 What we claim as our invention is as'follows:

The hook B, having straight shank A and lug C, in combination with the plate D, havvention we have hereunto set our hands this 10th day of October, 1883.

JOHN D. OTIS.

D\VIGHT M. MAX\V ELL.

H. \V. \VELLS,

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